Fort Donnally was built by Andrew Donnally a few miles north about 1771. An attack on the fort by 200 Indians in 1778 was the second most important frontier engagement in the state, and the fort was relieved by a force under Col. John Stuart. Before the attack, settlements had been warned by Philip Hammond and John Pryor, scouts at Point Pleasant, who, made up as Indians by Nonhelema, the sister of Cornstalk, passed and outran the Indians.